The hivemind is conquering for me?

As I marvelled how Jewel had managed to scream my Mental defence away, Kathrine fell to her knees, overwhelmed by the noise she had just heard. Looking around, her body began to shake as what she was witnessing was completely eldritch to her.

"A-Apollo, what is out there?" Kathrine then clanged to her master's leg, as a fear deeper than any she ever knew washed over her. Kathrine knew she was strong. Stronger than most ordinary humans anyway. But she had been lazy in her training until very recently.

Even then, If she had been training everyday of her life since the second she was born, Kathrine knew that whatever was out there, she would never have a chance to make a move if a fight were to break out.@@novelbin@@

Looking up at Apollo as he did not respond, he seemed to be concentrating on something. 'Don't tell me he is planning on fighting that monster? How could he?' She knew Apollo was stronger than her Psionically. He was even close to her mothers holding back Physical strength so he was no joke, but this thing? surrounding the island that was his Mindspace? It was impossible.

...

After concentrating for a moment, I breathed a sigh of relief as I channelled enough energy into my barrier. It had been an incredibly long time since it broke like that. Even when the Anti Psionics messed me up, it was only splotches of damage for the most part and was still mostly intact.

With my barrier up once more, the enormity of the creature surrounding the barrier vanished and was replaced with two figures, staring in from the outside. The first being a three meter tall humanoid and directly behind her like a shadow, an 80 meter tall being that instilled a fear into Kathrine even greater than the large creature for its attention seemed to be fixated in her direction.

"My Love, you can't go breaking my barrier like that with a scream! I have just recovered! Do you want me to get worse again already?" In response to my question, a tendril of energy, effortlessly pierced my Mindspace and began making its way towards me.

As it reached me, it began to wrap around me and I began to fondle and caress it lovingly. "Forgive me, my mate. When I saw your pet, touching you. I lost myself. That being said, It must learn its place should it wish to continue its existence."

Kathrine flinched hearing this, finally coming out of her terror. She knew the thing could end her in a moment, but her desire to make sure Apollo was safe overwhelmed her own fear. "Apollo." She said meekly. "What is that thing?"

"Oh!" I exclaimed, as I realised the situation. "Goodness, this is going to be awkward. Um, Jewel, this is my human lover, Kathrine Hyllus, though, you already know that. Kathrine." I motioned mid speech towards the large body outside of my Mindspace.

"This is Jewel, my aforementioned teacher. Though she is much more than that. Jewel is the brain of what Spartari calls the swarm. We love each other down to our Psionic existences and are each other's mates for life."

I felt awkward, not really knowing how to explain my relationship with Jewel. Only those of the Hive or hive adjacent really understood, and it was not like I ever planned on telling anyone, It was not like I had a speech prepared for such an occasion.

"This Kathrine seems different to the one I smelt upon your form on that planet I invaded. The Psionic bondage you used is truly alien to me, my love. She is not even chained like the others. One day back in my embrace and you are giving me gifts of knowledge that make me love you more than the day before."

Jewel's telepathic tendril clung to me tighter, clearly showing how much she loved me as she imbued the tentacle with her love, intoxicating me in the process. "MMmmh." I hummed with delight before Kathrine spoke once more.

"I-Uh-I. What?" Kathrine fell onto her rear. The interaction before her had broken her sense of reason. Pulling the tendril off my avatar, I then walked forward and sat in front of Kathrine. "Kat, we are now bonded in a way beyond intimate. Even though neither of us expected it to happen. I think it is only fair that you know everything about me. The real me and we can decide what to do from there."

I then began to explain my true history. I began from the very beginning, only excluding what I could not even tell the hive about myself. I started by explaining how I was cognitively aware from birth and how my parents abandoned me, leaving me to die in a dumpster."

Kathrine was immediately confused as the story she heard from Sophia was much different. I then carried on by explaining how when the hive found me, more specifically, Orchid. Or as she was called back then, Freethinker #1700354. Once they found me, they recognised that I was their mate and they took me back to their home, where I spent the beginning of my life With Jewel and Orchid, being truly loved.

I then went on to explain everything that had happened throughout my childhood. I explained how large the hive actually was and that all Spartari had seen were small scout fleets which caused Kathrine's eye to go large with shock as she continued to listen intently.

I further explained my reason for visiting Elysium which was to grow my Psionic might and explore the system. After I finished explaining everything to her, I asked. "Do you have any questions?"

"Like a million." Kathrine said exasperated. Her entire cosmological scale just got a good walloping after all. "Take your time. Ask your question's in any order that comes to mind." Kathrine nodded her head and began to ask.

"So, you clearly are not a Spartari noble by blood like I once thought, though I suppose you are a King, just to another species. But that begs to question, who is Sophia then? How do you have connections to her? Did you trick her into being her spouse and more importantly, how? If you have not been in this galaxy until recently?"

"Sophia is part of the Hive. She is a special creature called a Bio-cult Infiltrator. She is detached from the Main Hive brain, Jewel, like Orchid is for the most part. She arrived on your planet not long after the hive began to scout this galaxy. Maybe a year or two afterwards? She would have arrived inside of an asteroid or something similar. She has a poison that can alter a person's genetic code overtime, making them a member of the hive by proxy, a cultist of the hive so to speak. So far, only Samantha has fully converted into a fully hive being, but more will come in the future."

Kathrine felt a knot in her stomach hearing that. She had been surrounded by aliens for months without even realising? They were scarily good at concealing themselves if that was the case and was a serious security breach.

"How many of these cults are there In Spartari?" She followed up. I looked up towards Jewel who mildly probed the bio cultists in Elysium, similar to what she did to Sophia to inform her of Apollo's arrival originally.

After Jewel told me, I was surprised. "Really? Only six? As Jewel fed me the information, not wanting to talk to the lesser being more than she needed to, I began to explain.

"Apparently, Spartari are actually pretty good at accidentally killing newly formed cults in the outer worlds. They don't realise they are cults of course, but as people go missing and people begin to act strange, they find the cause of the problem quickly and execute the 'traitors' Ecumenopolis 4 does not have this issue obviously in the south. A perfect breeding ground for Sophia to exert herself so to speak."

After explaining about Sophia, Kathrine asked me questions for hours, seemingly getting used to the giant being looming in the distance. After a while, there was a pause in her questioning, so I felt I should ask one of my own.

"So Kat. I know this is a lot to take in. How are you doing? I don't know how to proceed going forward. You obviously cannot tell anyone about what I have told you. I know I said I would not exert my will over you, but my loved ones are at risk if you leak this to anyone. If you don't want to be a part of my future after hearing all of this, I completely understand. I know you are loyal to Spartari and a patriot, so I must imagine keeping all of this to yourself will be a heavy burden. And for that I am sorry once more"

Kathrine looked at me confused. "Apollo, what are you talking about? I am with you all the way. I love you more than I ever thought It was possible to love. I am not leaving you because you are in a relationship with an entire species. Fuck Spartari! I literally Stole billions from them when I was younger. You are all I care about. Well my kids as well actually. I wonder if I should send them to Sophia to be converted into those cultists you talked about? Or wait! My daughter could also become your servant? I am sure she would not like it at first, but she would get used to it. And then there is my Mommy, She-"

I watched on with confusement as Kathrine began to storm up ideas on how to integrate her own family into mine. Even Jewel looked on with a perplexed emotion as we both thought in tandem.

'I was not expecting this.'